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Random Babbling Post #28

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Blackthorne TA, Oct 21, 2004.

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  1. Midwinter Gems: 9/31
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    Remove all ads!
    It's a day for cider, without question.

    Cider and Romano-British things.
     
    Midwinter, Oct 23, 2004
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  2. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] Ok, I see we'll have to lay down some rules for RB from now on.

    5 posts per page from one person max. Because some people (you know who you are) are obviously using this thread instead of the chatroom, or just to get their post counts up, or just to spam. 5 posts per page is more than enough of that.

    P.S.
    Oh, I guess the moderation of RB is a historic moment or something. And it's all thanks to our darling spammers.
     
    Taluntain, Oct 23, 2004
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  3. Takara

    Takara My goodness! I see turnips everywhere

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    hehe, I see using RB to increase your spam count as the simple option, and for those who arent die hards. Try raising your spam count like a meteor by only making proper posts in other threads. That's the real challeng :grin:
     
    Takara, Oct 23, 2004
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    Well, I was kinda under the impression that the point of RB was to let the people go spam-crazy and keep it out of the rest of the forum...

    But meh, feel free to engage in some forum throttling, if you think it so wrong that a post count number should go up from a certain thread. Personally I don't see the point.

    1/5 :rolleyes:
     
    Aikanaro, Oct 23, 2004
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  5. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Ooh, the stinging sarcasm... Well, your impression was wrong to begin with. The thread isn't called Random Spamming As Often As Possible. There are really only a few people here who abuse the thread to more or less post the same thing over and over for like 10 times on every page. But I'm tired of telling them we have a chatroom for this. If all they do is raise their post count by spamming in RB, they're not really contributing anything to the forum apart from bloating it up. 5 posts per page for them is more than enough.

    And this is more a guideline than a rule, as it isn't really going to be enforced strictly, only if we see someone who's gone way over it repeatedly, as some people have been lately. So by the time you've gone over it, you should have a nagging feeling that all you're doing is spamming. At that point, it'd be a good idea to count how many posts you've made on a single page and tone it down.
     
    Taluntain, Oct 23, 2004
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    Five per person per page is quite a fine ratio. In fact, my usual frequency is 4 per page and I'm on broadband, online 24/24/7 and always on the boards, in the chatroom or both. If one has something particularly interesting to share, there can always be a separate topic and questions can go in a poll...

    It does sound a bit totalitarian and my first reaction was "WTF? Where's ICQ? I'm going to burn him.", until I saw it was a guideline and not a strict rule. It's not like I'm going to count my posts before saying something in case it make a sixth post on a given page, especially when I'm drunk.

    If it were a strict rule, there would be situations like (in #sorcerers):

    <spamminator> Has someone not hit the five yet? Need a new page.

    or:

    <spamster> Someone go post something. It's just a couple of posts till the new page.

    Or people would go and reply gaming questions with rubbish for the sake of a new gem. Or they would comment on the news lavishly and without much relevance or substance. Trash topics would appear and ones oriented purely on one word or one sentence replies.

    [ October 23, 2004, 16:09: Message edited by: chevalier ]
     
    chevalier, Oct 23, 2004
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    That's quite possibly the single best thing I've ever read in any post in any forum ever, chev.
     
    Midwinter, Oct 23, 2004
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    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    [​IMG] chev, those are the only kind of posts we all want to see from you from now on. :p
     
    Splunge, Oct 23, 2004
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    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    Chev, cat got your tongue? Or hjsst arte your mouse and keyboard?

    *sniggle*

    Mybrain is overloading with random nano ideas.... sometimes, just sometimes it could be fun to be normal.

    *sigh*

    sausages are good; especially when you've forgotten to eat since... err... can't remember, even...
     
    Arabwel, Oct 23, 2004
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    Yeah, had some sausages for dinner. Grannie put some unpeeled whole potatoes and sausages in the batch and dinner was like charm.
     
    chevalier, Oct 23, 2004
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  11. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    chev, no fair! Your previous post was completely blank (thus the reason for my post) until you edited it.

    I liked the other version better. :p
     
    Splunge, Oct 23, 2004
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    Where did the icelus mod list go from the soa forum?
     
    Sarevok•, Oct 23, 2004
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    /me checks out page two and starts counting...

    1...2...3...4...5...........6!!

    DOH!!!!

    /me slaps forehead

    Was at work today for 8 1/2 mundane hours, why do I tortue myself so? oh yeah, cause I'm in debt and can't afford to pay the rent (keep forgetting that)...

    ...time for :coffee:
     
    Son of Bhaal, Oct 23, 2004
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    Arabwel Screaming towards Apotheosis Veteran

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    *sigh*

    rr, I blame it on broadband hyperness. Sowwy, Tal, for cluttering up your pretty board :(

    *sigh*

    I just had a bunny bite me in the backside and it makes me want to scrap my current nano, or at least to move it to the "To be written later" folder...

    I suck.
     
    Arabwel, Oct 23, 2004
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    I guess I'll close at four for this page. Like always or almost always. Need some more coffee. Need some beer. I'm both rested like newborn and tired like after a torture session at one time. Strange. Guess the balance of substances in my circulation has been disturbed.
     
    chevalier, Oct 23, 2004
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    This is gonna be harder than holding my breath, 2/5 only three to go for this page... I fear the end is nye, clouds everything the dark side does ooOOOOooo
     
    Son of Bhaal, Oct 23, 2004
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    chevalier Knight of Everfull Chalice ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran

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    I am your father! :grin: :tie:
     
    chevalier, Oct 23, 2004
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    Hmmm thanks to the spam I never have a change of being 5 times on one page lucky Me :D

    Anyway I hope this will not take away the insanity of RB! Right I want I beer now!
     
    SleepleSS, Oct 23, 2004
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    bg2 collectors limited edition on ebay.co.uk
     
    Sarevok•, Oct 23, 2004
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    Here come some babbles, have no idea who thier quoting though...

    "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

    "Always two there are. No more, no less. A master and an apprentice."

    "Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarassing."

    "Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

    "When 900 years old you are, look as good you will not!"

    oooOOOOoooo

    Time to finish off the evening with beer, and begin the very early morning with the :coffee: , damn this kebab is gooOOOood!!
     
    Son of Bhaal, Oct 24, 2004
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